The coordinates of the location/google maps will ALWAYS give you the right time zone where the events are hosted.
I think that making the teams enter the events in UTC time really is a bad idea. I personally find it very annoying. But asking me for the time zone is reasonable. Converting local time to UTC time should be trivial. My NOK 0,02 R. 2010/3/24, Fabian Rodriguez <[email protected]>: > Laura Czajkowski wrote: > [...] >> Our question to the community is, what would be the impact on your use >> of loco.ubuntu.com for planning local events, if times were entered and >> displayed in UTC,instead of local time. If the burden is not great, we >> will do that. If the burden is enough to significantly impact usage, we >> will go the more difficult (for us) route. > > I wouldn't use it. I am already updting multiple calendars, wondering > why I can't just "import event from XYZ". Dealing with timezones - I > don't think so. > > Ask the first-time visitors "What time is it for you right now ?" and > store that as a cookie. > > Optionally get user's time zone from Launchpad if logged in. (not sure > if LP has timezone info). > > I think Drupal does it like that and some forum websites too. > > F. > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > -- Sendt fra min mobile enhet -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
